@Ian, if you let me know the name of a social media site you belong to which accepts the posting of photographs (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Dropbox, etc.), I’ll send you three photographs from 1958 you appear on and which you may well have forgotten about. I’ve got a named class photo on which you are standing behind Mr Barlow, and two of you in the Morris dancing group, again with Mr Barlow. Failing this, let me have an email address via this thread, and I’ll send you the three photographic files.
Best wishes, David.
Ian, were you in Mr Barlow’s class at Bordesley Green Junior School in 1958? And were you in his Morris dancing group with Mickey Overs, John Bolton, Robert Toomer and Alan Plant?
David (quellaverde)
Jaiom, it would cost a small fortune; the cinema was flattened in February 1959. Whitacre’s Garage was build in its place, only to be knocked down and a filling station erected on the same corner between Bordesley Green and Churchill Road.
Mike, I’m afraid you’re confusing the Era Picture Playhouse – in the above photo – with the Elite Cinema, which was bombed into oblivion but never completely destroyed. Its ruin is still to be seen on the corner Bordesley Green/ Crown Road, 1,260 yards along The Green, going into town. The billiard hall is still there too.
@Ian, if you let me know the name of a social media site you belong to which accepts the posting of photographs (Facebook, Twitter, Google+, Dropbox, etc.), I’ll send you three photographs from 1958 you appear on and which you may well have forgotten about. I’ve got a named class photo on which you are standing behind Mr Barlow, and two of you in the Morris dancing group, again with Mr Barlow. Failing this, let me have an email address via this thread, and I’ll send you the three photographic files. Best wishes, David.
Ian, were you in Mr Barlow’s class at Bordesley Green Junior School in 1958? And were you in his Morris dancing group with Mickey Overs, John Bolton, Robert Toomer and Alan Plant? David (quellaverde)
Jaiom, it would cost a small fortune; the cinema was flattened in February 1959. Whitacre’s Garage was build in its place, only to be knocked down and a filling station erected on the same corner between Bordesley Green and Churchill Road.
Mike, I’m afraid you’re confusing the Era Picture Playhouse – in the above photo – with the Elite Cinema, which was bombed into oblivion but never completely destroyed. Its ruin is still to be seen on the corner Bordesley Green/ Crown Road, 1,260 yards along The Green, going into town. The billiard hall is still there too.